1. Hawaii – a chain of 8 large and 100 small islands in the Pacific ocean, about 2000 miles west of California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii

2. The Midway Atoll is part of a volcanic chain of islands, atolls, and seamounts that extends from Hawaii to the Aleutian Islands – called the Hawaii – Emperor Chain. The USA owns Midway Atoll. http://www.midway-island.com/

3. William H. Seward purchased Alaska and Midway for the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward

4. King Kamehameha I unified the Hawaiian Islands. Americans and Europeans began trading with the Hawaiian people around 1790. A statue of the king is decorated With leis on his birthday every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_I

5. A field of sugar cane in Hawaii. http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph15.htm

6. Queen Liliuokalani took away powers of American sugar planters in the 1890s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliuokalani

7. American Samoa – an unincorporated territory of the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa

8. The Boxer Rebellion – 1900 in Beijing, China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

9. Foreign armies in Beijing, China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

10. Treaty of Portsmouth recognized Japan’s control of Korea in return for a promise from Japan to stop expanding its borders. Russian leaders are on the far side of the table and Japanese leaders are on the near side of the table. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Portsmouth

11. The Great White Fleet (1907) consisted of 16 new steel- hulled warships that steamed around the world, ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt, to show growing American power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet